Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum

Turkey Related Subjects => Turkey Discussion Forum (Not Calis specifically) => Topic started by: KKOB on August 22, 2014, 09:29:23 AM

Title: Istanbul's "Illegal" Towers.
Post by: KKOB on August 22, 2014, 09:29:23 AM

The Turkish Council of State has ordered three luxury apartment blocks to be bulldozed amid widespread outrage. But will it have any impact on the country’s unstoppable, and often unlawful, construction boom?


http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2014/aug/21/istanbuls-illegal-towers-to-be-demolished-after-landmark-court-ruling

Title: Re: Istanbul's "Illegal" Towers.
Post by: Rimms on August 22, 2014, 09:31:44 AM

No

Title: Re: Istanbul's "Illegal" Towers.
Post by: kevin3 on August 22, 2014, 10:49:18 AM

I would guess that the owners were not AKP supporters.

Title: Re: Istanbul's "Illegal" Towers.
Post by: Scunner on August 22, 2014, 11:12:51 AM

Not just AKP supporter but a 'friend' of RTE! Good friend he turned out to be.

Title: Re: Istanbul's "Illegal" Towers.
Post by: kevin3 on August 22, 2014, 15:50:03 PM

When the last mans head goes under water Erdogan will be standing on his shoulders.      ;)

Title: Re: Istanbul's "Illegal" Towers.
Post by: Colwyn on August 22, 2014, 15:54:41 PM

As the photograph shows, the project is a diabolical despoilment of one of the greatest cityscapes in the world.

Title: Re: Istanbul's "Illegal" Towers.
Post by: Scunner on August 22, 2014, 17:16:11 PM

But surely legally built (at the time). Maybe not the correct type of legally perhaps  ;)

Title: Re: Istanbul's "Illegal" Towers.
Post by: Colwyn on August 22, 2014, 17:27:35 PM

I don't understand the planning process in the UK, let alone hazard an opinion on what goes on in Turkey.

Title: Re: Istanbul's "Illegal" Towers.
Post by: KKOB on August 22, 2014, 18:05:42 PM

Here's a clue Colwyn.

(http://www.sickchirpse.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/shoebox.png)

Title: Re: Istanbul's "Illegal" Towers.
Post by: kevin3 on August 22, 2014, 18:13:43 PM

If you present one of those with your planning application it's a shoe-in.